Had a weird rash on my leg for four years (I know, I know.) Outside of being a little itchy, it never really bothered me.
This past week, it’s caused my legs to be a little numb (I can still feel sensations, but it feels "muffled). So, as much as I hate doctors, I go to the UrgentCare clinic on yesterday afternoon. I tend to fear the worst (hence my aversion to doctors; they’re like lawyers - you never go to them for positive reasons).
I get checked in and when I go to the room, I have my pre-screening, where I’m brutally honest about my lifestyle habits, hoping an honest, detailed picture will get to the bottom of this. I detail how I get overly worked-up about things, don’t sleep much, etc. She looks at it and tells me it looks like it could be a fungus. Ew, yeah, but a fungus isn’t the worst that I’d imagined. So, she said she’ll call the doctor in, and have her check it out.
45 minutes of me feeling relieved, while I wait and the doctor comes in. As we talk, I can tell she’s analyzing me, and she finally announces that she wants to have a biopsy. Not what I wanted to hear. She said it could be a wide gamut of things, and not to assume the worst. The thing couldn’t be scheduled for over a week from now.
When I get home, I talk to a friend, and he tells me that one of our mutual friends could have something similar (psoriasis), and I noticed similar marks on his skin last week. He then tells me that there are a lot of triggers some benign that apply - drinking, poor diet, stress, lack of sleep, but then there are a few others that are much more serious.
So, for the next 7+ days, I get to go back and forth in my head and go from harmless skin irritation to indicative of a much worse problem.
I really hope you can come up with something.